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Wireless device cannot connect to the FRITZ!Box
Your smartphone or another wireless device can't connect to the FRITZ!Box via Wi-Fi? ✔ Here's what to do.
Although the Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box was set up according to our guide, a wireless device does not establish a Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box. One of the following error messages may be displayed by the wireless device:
"Error during authentication"
"Unable to connect to this network"
"Connection failed"
If the wireless device does not display the name of the FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network (SSID) when it searches for Wi-Fi networks, proceed as described in the guide FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network cannot be found.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the problem is solved.
Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.
1 Optimizing the FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi settings
Perform the following steps on a different device connected to the FRITZ!Box:
Important:If you cannot access the FRITZ!Box with any device, proceed as described in the guide FRITZ!Box user interface cannot be opened.
Disabling the MAC address filter
Click "Wi-Fi" ("Wireless") in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
Click "Security" in the "Wi-Fi" ("Wireless") menu.
Enable the option "Allow all new wireless devices".
Click "Apply" to save the settings.
Enabling the WPS function
Click on the "WPS Quick Connection" tab.
Enable WPS.
Click "Start WPS" to save the settings.
Unlocking the buttons
Click "System" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
Click "Buttons and LEDs" in the "System" menu.
Click on the "Keylock" tab.
Disable the "Buttons locked" checkbox.
Adjusting the name of the Wi-Fi network (SSID)
Click "Wi-Fi Network" ("Radio Network") in the "Wi-Fi" ("Wireless") menu.
Disable the option "Different names for the Wi-Fi networks on 2.4 and 5 GHz" to use the same name (SSID) for both Wi-Fi networks. Only then can the FRITZ!Box automatically steer your wireless devices to the ideal frequency band ("band steering").
Enable the option "Name of the Wi-Fi network visible". This way, all wireless devices can connect to the FRITZ!Box and the FRITZ!Box can optimally control your wireless devices in the Mesh ("Mesh Wi-Fi Steering").
If you changed the name of the FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network (SSID), remove all special characters from the Wi-Fi network name. Since some wireless devices do not support all of the special characters allowed by the FRITZ!Box, only use letters (but not special characters such as ä, ë, ö, ü, á, é, í), numbers, and spaces.
Click "Apply" to save the settings. If the wireless devices were only connected to the 5 GHz Wi-Fi network with a different name, you must then reconfigure the Wi-Fi connection on those devices.
2 Updating FRITZ!OS and Wi-Fi software
Updates contain improvements, bug fixes, and new functions. Therefore, install the latest FRITZ!OS and software versions on all FRITZ! products and wireless devices:
Installing the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box
Install the latest FRITZ!OS on the FRITZ!Box.
Installing the latest software for the wireless device
Install the latest software version for the wireless device (for example Android, iOS) or the latest driver for the computer's wireless network adapter (for example from the Intel Download Center).
Note:Refer to the device's manufacturer for information on how to update, for example consult the manual.
3 Connecting a wireless device to the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network
Some wireless plugs, robotic vacuum cleaners, and other wireless devices that are connected via app only support the 2.4 GHz frequency band. To set up the Wi-Fi connection, the mobile device with the app must be connected to the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network of the FRITZ!Box. Therefore, deactivate the FRITZ!Box's 5 GHz Wi-Fi network before setting it up. This way you ensure that the app transmits the correct frequency band to the device:
Disabling the 5 GHz Wi-Fi network
Disable the option "5 GHz frequency band active" in the section "Active Frequency Bands". If only one frequency band is displayed, enable the Advanced View first.
Setting up a Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box
Set up the Wi-Fi connection from the wireless device to the FRITZ!Box according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Enabling the 5 GHz Wi-Fi network
Enable the option "5 GHz frequency band active" in the section "Active Frequency Bands". If only one frequency band is displayed, enable the Advanced View first.
4 The FRITZ!Box does not support Wireless 802.11b
The FRITZ!Box does not support the wireless standard 802.11b. 802.11b was standardized in 1999 and does not support modern security functions. Devices such as Fitbit Aria wireless scales that only support the obsolete standard 802.11b can therefore not be used together with modern Wi-Fi 6 routers, which means that they cannot establish a Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box.
5 Adjusting FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi security settings
If the wireless device still does not connect to the FRITZ!Box, it does not support the modern security functions used by the FRITZ!Box. To connect the wireless device anyway, you must adjust the security settings in the FRITZ!Box:
Disabling WPA3 transition mode (WPA2 + WPA3)
WPA transition mode allows simultaneous connections with WPA3 and WPA2 encryption using the same Wi-Fi network name and network key. With connections with WPA2 encryption, however, WPA3 transition mode has higher security requirements than usual for WPA2 (CCMP).
Some wireless devices cannot establish a Wi-Fi connection if WPA3 transition mode is enabled. This is the case with iPhones and iPads with iOS older than 12.1.1, older wireless printers, IP cameras, and wireless plugs, for example:
If WPA mode "WPA2 + WPA3" is selected in the section "WPA Encryption", select the WPA mode "WPA2 (CCMP)" from the drop-down list.
Disabling PMF
PMF (Protected Management Frames) encrypts the control information for establishing and using Wi-Fi connections, thus ensuring greater security. PMF is always enabled for WPA3 encryption and optional for WPA2 encryption.
Some wireless devices, for example older wireless printers, cannot establish a Wi-Fi connection if PMF is enabled:
Disable the option "Enable support for protected logins by wireless devices (PMF)" in the section "Additional Security Settings".
Similar errors:
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Q: CSS columns cuts of part of image https://exchagerates.herokuapp.com/
If you look at the Guam flag in Chrome it is cut off from the top. It gets distributed between the first column and the second. Which is what I don't want. How do I get the tops of all columns to align? I have tried using page-break-inside: avoid but that doesn't seem to help.
Can someone help?

A: You were close, just add a webkit prefix:
-webkit-column-break-inside: avoid;

Required for my Chrome at least, Windows, version 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit).

A: Use align-items: center; or align-items: flex-end; on all flex items
OR
Change the structure Flexbox

A: For the container you've decided to create a CSS columns layout. This doesn't have much effect in generating height for the children. Quite the opposite.
Referrring to a Bootstrap card-deck layout, you'll need the following CSS on the container:
/*columns: 300px 4;*/
/* margin: 20vh 5% 5%; */
margin-top: calc(50px + 4%); // 50px height of the input + 2% top margin + 2% bottom margin
margin-left: 5%;
margin-right: 5%;
display: flex;
flex-flow: row wrap;

In this case the children will be aligned as flex items. For a column layout you'll need the flex-basis property.
display: flex;
flex: 1 0 30%; // flex-basis 30% for 3 colums per row (33.33% - 15px - 15px)
flex-direction: column;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 15px;

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Senior pastor kills 2 daughters, commits suicide
Home » Metro » Senior pastor kills 2 daughters, commits suicide
John Owen Nwachukwu
A 36-year-old senior Pastor has killed himself after poisoning his 11-year-old daughter, Shalom and Panashe, (7).
It was gathered that Pastor Precocious Mpofu of the Eagle Life Assembly, who hailed from Nkulumane, Zimbabwe poisoned his two daughters before killing himself in their home in Yeoville Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Chronicle reports that they were buried at Luveve cemetery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on Saturday, the same day their bodies were found in their home.
The pastor reportedly forced his two daughters to drink a drainage cleaning chemical before also taking it, citing marital problems.
The deceased and his wife Ms Chido Chipangura, had recently separated but she was still living in South Africa.
Chipangura family members said they were yet to come to terms with the death of the children.
"As a family we are very sad. We have lost two children and we are still in mourning. We thank the family, friends and neighbours for their support at this time," said a family representative who spoke to The Chronicle.
The late Pastor Mpofu allegedly left a suicide note in which he stated that he was facing a lot of problems, most of them in his marriage.
He also allegedly said there were some people who were stalking him and mentioned four people together with their contact details.
Pastor Mpofu however, did not give reasons the individuals were stalking him.
The now deceased also sent a lot of messages to his family on the fateful day although he did not mention his intentions to kill his children and commit suicide.
He however, gave a hint when he directed how his property should be shared.
The family members told The Chronicle at their family home in Nkulumane suburb last Friday that from the information they received, the tragedy could have happened on Monday, October 15, between 2PM and 4PM after Pastor Mpofu had just returned from collecting his children from school. The deceased's father, Mr Sipho Mpofu, said:
"I am reliably informed residents at his apartment saw him carrying each of the daughters on his shoulders into their flat at around 2PM.
"At 2:40PM he sent his sister here in Bulawayo a WhatsApp message saying one of his daughters, Shalom, had died. Exactly 10 minutes later, he sent another message saying his second daughter had also passed on.
"This puzzled his sister who was trying to call him to understand what exactly he was trying to say."
He said when she tried to text him back, messages were no longer being delivered and the sister phoned Ms Chipangura telling her to go and check on her husband as he was texting strange messages.
"Ms Chipangura dashed to the flat only to find three bodies. The kids' bodies were neatly laid in bed between blankets while Precocious' body was on the floor," he said.
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Most Rev. Mark J. Seitz, D.D.
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso
Episcopal Coat of Arms
When a priest is named to the office of Bishop he is given a number of tasks that have the value of inviting him to reflect upon his identity and his goals. He has to choose a motto and develop a shield or coat of arms. When an Auxiliary Bishop is named as the bishop of a diocese, he then has the opportunity to revise his coat of arms to include the crest of the diocese he has been called to serve.
I have chosen the motto, "Paratum cor meum", "My heart is ready". This phrase is found in two psalms, both Psalm 57 and Psalm 108. The phrase reflects the steadfastness and the unfettered responsiveness to the will of God I would like to cultivate in my life. The motto is at the same time a homage to Bishop Thomas Tschoepe who chose this as his motto. He was a very important mentor and model in my life.
Looking to the rest of the shield, there is more here than I am even capable of explaining, but I would like to give you a little summary of the basic symbols on the crest:
On the left side of the coat of arms you will find elements of the shield of the Diocese of El Paso. The blue and white honor Our Lady under the title of the Immaculate Conception, Patroness of the United States. The wavy border symbolizes the Rio Grande River. In the diocesan crest the river surrounds the "Ysleta", or little island, which was the first name of El Paso.
The two long triangular forms represent the mountains that form the pass for which our diocese is named. They are topped by trefoils, otherwise known as shamrocks. These, along with the triangular mountains, both invoke the Trinity which is at the foundation of our Faith. The shamrocks are also a homage to the patron of our Cathedral, St. Patrick.
The star above the lower image is both a remembrance of the Lone Star for which our State is named and the North Star, a reference to the full early name of "El Paso del Norte". Of course, for us Christians, the North Star is also Christ who orients us and points us to our true home in heaven.
In the upper left-hand corner is an anchor. This anchor is taken from the coat of arms of St. Pope Pius X, who created our diocese. Interestingly, the anchor, called the "Anchor of Hope", was found in my original crest. It was a symbol adopted by an ancestor of mine named Roger Williams, a Baptist minister who founded Rhode Island, the first colony to enshrine the principle of religious liberty and freedom of conscience. I hope, also, to be effective in working with people of other faiths and to be a contributor to the good of our nation.
Now to the right side of the shield:
Beginning at the upper left, the red rose is the "Rose for Life". I wanted some symbol of my commitment to the Gospel of Life, which is really an expression of my concern that the dignity of human life be respected at all of its stages from conception to natural death.
The trefoil (shamrock) speaks to my Irish heritage, to the importance of teaching the Faith, and, of course, harkens back to St. Patrick, one of our Faith's most effective missionaries.
The pattern dividing the upper and lower parts of the crest is intended to honor the Native American heritage that I share and my desire to serve our first Americans.
The winged lion is the symbol for St. Mark the Evangelist. St. Mark is, of course, my patron. I hope to imitate him in his service of the Apostles Peter and Paul and in his ability to effectively translate the Faith to those who needed to hear the message of salvation. The lion also happens to be a symbol of Bavaria, in southern Germany, from whence my father's ancestors hailed.
Please keep me in your prayers, that my life may honorably reflect these signs.
Most Reverend Mark J. Seitz, D.D.


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As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.
It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own.
None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence than our faculties demand instruction.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.


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BLUE's grouper groupies
Vivienne Evans and Shaha Hashim are working on the ground – and in the sea – on BLUE's project to protect the Maldivian grouper. They have been raising awareness among residents, fishermen and authorities on the need to protect this extraordinary fish which plays such a vital role in protecting reefs.
In her latest blog, Vivienne writes about the educational programme she and Shaha have devised:
Funded by Marks & Spencer, the Environmental and Educational Awareness Programme is one of four major project activities we are working on. Together we work hard to engage with local fishermen, councils, communities and schools to generate an appreciation of the marine environment and the threats it faces, while also promoting improved fishery management measures including the protection of grouper spawning aggregation sites in marine reserves.
We are also conducting research into the size and length at which groupers mature and are able to reproduce. We will use this data to propose revised size limits for the fishery to the government.
Shaha and I have met with all 11 island councils and the Atoll council in Laamu and will continue to do as the project progresses. Educating the councils and working with them to gain their support for the project is critical to ensure the success of a long-term grouper fishery management plan in Laamu. Many Council members readily recognise that there has been a decline in grouper populations on Laamu and of the size of individual fish. They have a genuine appreciation of this project and are keen to implement marine reserves.
Vivienne and Shaha with Gan Council
Together with Six Senses Laamu and the Manta Trust, we have developed a comprehensive eight-module marine curriculum which covers topics ranging from atoll formation and marine ecosystems to fisheries management and sustainable tourism. This curriculum is taught to children aged 11-16 on two neighbouring islands Hithadhoo and Kunahandoo.
In addition to this, the marine team also carries out island visits to the other side of the atoll to ensure that these communities are not excluded from the programme. During these visits, a team of five marine biologists, together with the resort's Sustainability Officer deliver a condensed version of the curriculum to the children using an educational video with various practical activities including manta ray spot pattern identification.
Blue focuses on fisheries management and marine reserves and our latest creation was a board game to demonstrate the life cycle of groupers. Players begin the game as grouper spawn and their goal is to mature successfully and reach the grouper spawning aggregation site. Along the way, players (as developing groupers) are faced by perils such as warming sea temperatures, predators, dredging and fishing which set them back in the game. Players can advance to become adults by consuming prey such as parrotfish and seeking refuge in seagrass beds and marine protected areas.
We developed the grouper board game to teach children about the life cycle of groupers.
During these island visits the marine team also hold open community sessions in the evenings which allow Laamu residents the chance to learn about the on-going marine research projects based at the resort and ask any questions or raise any issues they may have.
Since both the education curriculum and island visit programmes were launched in late January this year, the team has interacted with a total of 397 school students, 163 community members and 81 council members and has been a huge success.
Our outreach efforts go beyond teaching conservation in a classroom environment as we continue to involve local students in our practical field work. Last month over the new moon period, we visited Maavah Island to collect data on groupers which will later contribute to the proposition of new size limit regulations. By finding out the length at which a grouper becomes mature we can then recommend specific changes to the current regulations which will allow groupers to reproduce before they are allowed to be caught for export. Some 38 marine science students from grades 8 to 10 joined us dissecting groupers and identifying gonads of different maturity stages, an activity almost none of them had done before.
At the end of this month, we will be welcoming Shareefa Ali, a Maldives National University Environmental Management (BSc) graduate to the project. Shareefa will work with us here in Laamu for a month, accompanying us on field trips to islands to interview fishermen and carry out grouper sampling, gaining invaluable practical field experience which will enable her to further her career as an marine conservationist.
The appreciation of the decline of the marine environment, subsequent fishery changes (fewer and smaller groupers) and the need for immediate protection of resources among the elder generation in Laamu is both refreshing and encouraging. It is through our capacity-building efforts that we hope to motivate the younger residents of Laamu to recognise the importance of their marine environment and encourage them to act as ambassadors for conservation. With the support of councils and continuous outreach work, there is a great opportunity for the residents of Laamu to eagerly support the implementation of local marine protected areas as part of specific management measures for groupers.
The size range of groupers exported.


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US Supreme Court Center > Volume 141 > CRUTCHER V. KENTUCKY, 141 U. S. 47 (1891)
CRUTCHER V. KENTUCKY, 141 U. S. 47 (1891)
Crutcher v. Kentucky, 141 U.S. 47 (1891)
Crutcher v. Kentucky
Argued March 19, 1890
Decided May 25, 1891
The act of the Legislature of Kentucky of March 2, 1860, "to regulate agencies of foreign express companies," which provides that the agent of an express company not incorporated by the laws of that state shall not carry on business there without first obtaining a license from the state, and that preliminary thereto he shall satisfy the auditor of the state that the company he represents is possessed of an actual capital of at least $150,000, and that if he engages in such business without license he shall be subject to fine, is a regulation of interstate commerce so far as applied to a corporation of another state engaged in that business, and is to that extent repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.
The case was stated by the Court as follows:
This case arose at Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, upon an indictment found against Crutcher, the plaintiff in error, in the Franklin Circuit Court, for acting and doing business as agent for the United States Express Company, alleged to be an express company not incorporated by the laws of Kentucky, but trading and doing business as a common carrier by express of goods, merchandise, money, and other things of value in and through the county and state aforesaid, without having any license so to do either for himself or the
company. Crutcher, being arrested and brought before the court, tendered a special plea setting forth the facts with regard to his employment and the business of the company, and, among other things, that said company was a joint-stock company, incorporated and having its principal office in the City of New York in the State of New York, which plea was refused. He then pleaded not guilty, and the parties filed an agreed statement of facts, and by consent the matters of law and fact were submitted to the court, and the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution. The agreed statement of facts was as follows:
"It is agreed that the defendant is agent of the United States Express Co., a foreign corporation doing the business ordinarily done by express companies in this country, of carrying goods and freight for hire not only from points in this state to other points in this state, but also of carrying same character of freight from points within this state to points without this state, in divers parts of the United States and vice versa. And defendant, agent at Frankfort, Kentucky, never obtained any license to do such business, nor did said express company obtain any license from the State of Kentucky. The proportion of business done by the said company within and without this state for the month of November, 1888, is shown by a statement herewith filed, market 'X,' and the same proportion of business within and without this state, approximately, is generally done by said company."
The detailed statement referred to, market "X," showed the total amount of business done by the company at the Frankfort office in November, 1888, to have been $226.71, of which $56.14, or not quite one-fourth of the whole, was business done entirely within the state, and the remainder, $170.57, was done partly within and partly without the state -- that is, the goods were brought into the state from places without the state, or were carried from the state to places without the state. Of course, the latter, or largest, portion was comprised within the category of interstate commerce. The defendant upon these facts moved for a new trial,
which was refused, and also for an arrest of judgment, which was denied, and a bill of exceptions was taken. The case was then appealed to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and the judgment was affirmed. The ground taken for reversing the judgment was that the statute of Kentucky under which the indictment was found was repugnant to the power given to Congress by the Constitution of the United States to regulate commerce among the several states.
The law in question was passed in 1860, and is as follows:
"An act to regulate agencies of foreign express companies:"
"SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that it shall not be lawful after the first day of May, 1860, for any agent of any express company not incorporated by the laws of this commonwealth to set up, establish, or carry on the business of transportation in this sate without first obtaining a license from the auditor of public accounts to carry on such business."
"SEC. 2. Before the auditor shall issue such license to any agent of any company incorporated by any state of the United States, there shall be filed in his office a copy of the charter of such company, and a statement made, under oath of its president or secretary showing its assets and liabilities and distinctly showing the amount of its capital stock, and how the same has been paid, and of what the assets of the company consist, the amount of losses due and unpaid by said company, if any, and all other claims against said company or other indebtedness, due or not due, and such statement shall show that the company is possessed of an actual capital of at least $150,000, either in cash or in safe investment, exclusive of stock notes. Upon the filing of the statement above provided and furnishing the auditor with satisfactory evidence of such capital, it shall be his duty to issue license to such agent or agents as the company may direct to carry on the business of expressing or transportation in this state."
"SEC. 3. Before the auditor shall issue license to any agent of any express or transportation company incorporated by any
foreign government or any association or partnership acting under the laws of any foreign government, there shall be filed in his office a statement setting forth the act of incorporation or charter, or the articles of association, or bylaws under which they act, and setting forth the matters required by the preceding section of this act to be specified, and satisfactory evidence shall be furnished to the auditor that such company has on deposit in the United States, or has invested in the stock of some one or more of the United States, or in some safe dividend paying stocks in the United States, the sum of $150,000, which statement shall be verified by the oath of the president of such company, its general agent in the United States, or the agent applying for such license, and upon the due filing of such statement and furnishing the auditor with satisfactory evidence of such deposit or in vestment, it shall be his duty to issue such license to the agent or agents applying for the same."
"SEC. 4. The statements required by the foregoing sections shall be renewed in each year thereafter either in the months of January or July, and the auditor, on being satisfied that the capital or deposit, consisting of cash securities or investments as provided in this act, remain secure to the amount of $150,000, shall renew such license."
"SEC. 8. Any person who shall set up, establish, carry on, or transact any business for any transportation or express company not incorporated by the law of this state without having obtained license as by this act required, or who shall in any way violate the provisions of this act shall be fined for every such offense not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of a jury, to be recovered as like fines in other cases."
"SEC. 9. For any license issued by the auditor under this act, and for each renewal thereof, he shall be allowed the sum of $2.50, to be paid by the agent or company taking out such license."
An amendatory act passed in 1866 raised the license fee to $5, and imposed a fee of $5 for filing copy of charter, and $10 for filing an original or annual
statement. The Supreme Court of Kentucky, in disposing of the case, gave the following opinion (Crutcher v. Commonwealth, 12 S.W. 141):
"It seems to us that the case of Woodward v. Commonwealth, 7 S.W. 613, in which the statute appears in full, decided by this Court at its last term, determines the question now presented. Counsel for the appellant now claims that the statute of this state is invalid, as its effect is to regulate commerce among the several states. The agent of the express company was fined for not paying to the auditor a fee of five dollars, or rather for failing to take out a license required by the act regulating the agencies of foreign express companies, passed in March, 1860, and amended by the act of 1866. That the company of which the appellant is agent is a corporation created by the laws of New York, doing business in this state as a carrier of goods, wares, and merchandise, is conceded, and that it transports goods, etc., out of the state into other states, and all other species of property usually incident to such transportation, is admitted, both into the state and out of it. It appears that at least fifty percent of the business done by this agent consists in the carrying of goods from the place of his agency, Frankfort, to other states. That the carrying and transportation of goods from one state to another is a branch of interstate commerce is not controverted, but it is claimed that there is nothing in the legislation imposing on those who desire to act as the agents of this foreign corporation the burden of paying to the auditor the fee of five dollars for recording his agency, or, rather, for issuing him his license to act as such. \"
"The statute was enacted for the benefit of the citizens of the state, under which the auditor is required to have satisfactory evidence of the ability and solvency of the corporation to do that which it has undertaken to do by virtue of its act of incorporation. Those who entrust to its custody the transportation of their property are entitled to some security that its undertaking will be performed, and we find no law of
Congress or any constitutional provision that would deny to the state the right to impose such a burden upon those who undertake the discharge of such responsible duties. There is no discrimination made between corporations doing a like business, and the state, although the appellant's company is a foreign corporation, has the same right to license the business and calling of this agent as it would that of the lawyer or merchant whose business is confined to the state alone."
The court then referred to the cases of Smith v. Alabama, 124 U. S. 465, and to Nashville, Chattanooga &c. Railway v. Alabama, 128 U. S. 96, and concluded as follows:
"We cannot perceive how any burden has been placed by the state upon interstate commerce by the provisions of the enactment in question, and must therefore affirm the judgment. "
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Il decapaggio è un'operazione chimica di dissoluzione che avviene grazie all'utilizzo di acidi o basi e agisce mediante la rimozione volontaria e controllata di alcuni elementi superficiali allo scopo di pulire superficialmente un oggetto.

È un processo molto utilizzato su metalli al fine di pulire la superficie da ossidi, contaminanti, sporco e incrostazioni.

Viene impiegato soprattutto nel ciclo di produzione di manufatti in acciaio che necessitano di essere ripuliti da ruggine, calamina e residui di lavorazione, o come ciclo di pulizia e attivazione prima dei rivestimenti superficiali come la verniciatura, l'anodizzazione, la passivazione, la cromatura e la nichelatura.

Il decapaggio viene operato anche su materiali organici, come legno o capelli.

Processo di decapaggio
Molte operazioni di produzione di manufatti metallici avvengono a temperature elevate e generano di conseguenza ossidi superficiali, lasciando inoltre dei residui superficiali di lavorazione. Per pulire la superficie viene spesso inserito nel processo produttivo la fase di decapaggio. Tale processo avviene abitualmente per immersione in soluzioni di acidi forti. L'acido cloridrico e l'acido solforico sono i più utilizzati su acciaio. In funzione del metallo da decapare possono essere utilizzati anche l'acido fosforico, l'acido nitrico o l'acido fluoridrico o soluzioni alcaline come l'idrossido di sodio. L'alluminio, per esempio, viene decapato sia in acido nitrico, sia in soluzioni alcaline di idrossido di sodio.

La temperatura influenza l'azione decapante a causa della maggiore aggressività delle soluzioni al crescere della temperatura. Per tale motivo alcuni decapaggi vengono effettuati a temperature elevate.

Quando i pezzi sono completamente puliti e disossidati grazie al decapaggio, subiscono facilmente una ossidazione anche con il solo contatto con aria. Al fine di prevenire tale ossidazione vengono aggiunti alla soluzione decapante dei protettivi o inibitori di corrosione. Gli inibitori di corrosione vengono utilizzati anche per controllare l'attacco dell'acido sulle zone di metallo oramai nudo perché private dello strato di ossido più rapidamente delle altre.

Le soluzioni possono contenere anche dei tensioattivi che hanno lo scopo di modificare la tensione superficiale e aumentare la bagnabilità per uniformare l'azione decapante.

L'operazione di decapaggio, oltre che di natura chimica, può essere anche di natura elettrolitica dove l'acciaio costituisce l'anodo o il catodo in un elettrolita acido, attraverso il quale passa la corrente.

Il decapaggio si effettua anche durante la lavorazione industriale del rame (in acido nitrico) e degli ottoni. In questo caso l'operazione avviene in seguito alla ricottura dei materiali, procedimento necessario per fargli riacquistare una struttura metallografica apprezzabile andata perduta durante lo stress della laminazione. Il decapaggio si rende necessario poiché la ricottura provoca l'ossidazione dello strato superficiale, che viene asportato grazie a un bagno di acido solforico (soluto in acqua al 10%) seguito da una lavatura e da una spazzolatura.

Poiché il decapaggio lascia la superficie nuda, solitamente si eseguono ulteriori trattamenti atti a proteggerla o ricoprirla, che dipendono dal materiale e dalla finitura richiesta. Alcuni esempi di trattamenti eseguiti dopo il decapaggio sono la passivazione, cromatura, ossidazione anodica e verniciatura.

Sicurezza e ambiente
Il processo di decapaggio deve essere effettuato da personale competente e formato.

I parametri di processo come la concentrazione e la temperatura del bagno devono essere monitorati e tenuti costanti poiché influenzano il potere decapante e poiché possono generare reazioni incontrollate.

I materiali di contatto, come per esempio la vasca contenente la soluzione decapante, devono essere idonei e non subire l'attacco chimico degli acidi o delle basi. Per la maggior parte delle soluzioni decapanti vengono utilizzati materiali plastici come il PVC o il polipropilene. Anche l'acciaio inox può essere utilizzato a contatto con alcuni acidi.

Le soluzioni di trattamento possono essere pericolose per l'ambiente se non smaltite correttamente, sia per il contenuto di acidi o basi, sia per l'elevato contenuto di metalli disciolti.

Voci correlate
 Acciaio strutturale
 Calamina
 Costruzione metallica
 Passivazione
 Sabbiatura (metalli)
 Ossidazione anodica

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Trattamenti superficiali
Processi industriali

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The familiar rhythms of modern Christmas
Mitch Benn
Published: 10:00 AM December 10, 2020 Updated: 12:36 PM December 10, 2020
Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan - Credit: Getty Images
MITCH BENN on the annual controversy over Fairytale of New York.
One of my favourite things about the Christmas season is the way that new Yuletide traditions are always evolving and emerging to take their place alongside the more 'time-honoured' ones.
A recent addition to the canon of Christmas customs is the online game Whamageddon; as is often the case with online phenomena the game's specific origin is somewhat shrouded in digital mist but it appears to have been invented about 10 years ago. It's become a bigger deal these last few years as various radio hosts have encouraged their listeners to play along.
The 'rules' of Whamageddon are simple: one has to try to get from the morning of December 1 to midnight on Christmas Eve without hearing Wham's 1984 Christmas hit (and biggest-selling 'Number Two' of all time - no sniggering at the back) Last Christmas. As soon as a participant is exposed to the song, they must declare this on social media and are then 'out' of the game. It's considered unethical to 'Whambush' an opponent (calling them and then playing the song down the phone at them, for example).
Many people are bemoaning - or perhaps celebrating - the fact that current events have made something of a nonsense of 2020's Whamageddon tournaments: the idea used to be that the song's ubiquity at this time of year made it heroically difficult to go about one's usual business without having the song blasted at you from a shop doorway.
This year, to save us from tiers (I'm not even sorry), we're not doing much in the way of usual business. No danger of being unexpectedly Whammed by a department store's PA if you're not going into any department stores. It's much easier to control one's exposure to Last Christmas and festive songs in general, unless of course you're the kind of big Elf-like booby who puts the Christmas songs radio channel on as soon as December begins.
So anyway, I was out of the running for Whamageddon by about 11am on December 1.
Another burgeoning Christmas tradition, and one which remains unaffected by lockdown, is the annual 'should we censor Fairytale of New York' controversy. The song features, as I'm sure you know, an instance of the word that starts with F, rhymes with Taggart and is used as a homophobic slur, primarily in the USA. In recent years, radio stations have taken to bleeping the word out, or dropping the song from Christmas playlists altogether.
It's worth noting that the word wasn't picked up on as problematic upon the song's release in 1987 or for some years afterwards, and this isn't just because we lived in less inclusive times (although we did, for all that the 1980s thought it was the most right-on decade possible) but also because there wasn't as much awareness, in the UK at least, of just how nasty a word that was in the American vernacular. Shane MacGowan, the song's composer, has apparently said that he intended to invoke an earlier Irish usage of the word, which meant "workshy lazy person".
I can't definitively attest to the truth of this myself, being only one eighth Irish (a negligible degree of Irishness for a Scouser) but I do remember from my own childhood that my half-Irish grandma used to call me a "little f****t" when I was naughty. My old gran was a bit eccentric but I'm fairly sure she wasn't casting disparaging aspersions on my sexual orientation when I was four. Certainly I recall being rather alarmed to find out, some years later, what Americans meant by that word.
The thing is, whether or not MacGowan meant any offence (and he himself has said that he's okay with the word being omitted), how that word is primarily used is now known by pretty much everyone, and in my opinion dropping it out is a price worth paying to keep the song - one of the best Christmas songs ever written - in circulation.
When Edward Colston's statue in Bristol was destroyed this summer, it wasn't about retroactively condemning Colston for his actions, so much as it was a recognition that the achievements he was being lauded for weren't the kind of thing we wanted to laud anymore.
Similarly, it's possible to exercise a modicum of consideration for the sensibilities of modern listeners without accusing Shane MacGowan of having been homophobic 33 years ago.
Oh my. Thirty-three years. I'm going to need a moment. Okay, that's better.
Besides, there are far more lyrically dodgy Christmas songs out there. Have you ever actually looked at the words to Santa Claus Is Coming To Town? They're TERRIFYING. If you read them out slowly in a gravelly voice they become the voice-over to a slasher movie trailer. Try it: "He SEES you when you're sleeping... he KNOWS when you're awake..."


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Make It So: The Clippy Theory of Star Trek Action
11 Apr 2022 by Andrew Dana Hudson
My partner and I spent much of March watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation in mostly random order. I'd seen plenty of Trek before—watching pretty much all of DS9 and Voyager as a teenager, and enjoying the more recent J.J. Abrams reboot—but it's been years since I really considered the franchise as a piece of science fiction. My big takeaway is…TNG is bonkers, and that's okay. The show is highly watchable because it's really just a set of character moments, risk taking, and ethical conundrums strung together with pleasing technobabble, which soothes and hushes the parts of our brain that might object to the plot based on some technicality. It's a formula that will probably never lose its appeal.
But there is one thing that does bother me: how can the crew respond to Picard's orders so fast? Like, beyond-the-limits-of-reason fast.
How are you making that so?
When the Enterprise-D encounters hostile aliens, ship malfunctions, or a mysterious space-time anomaly, we often get dynamic moments on the bridge that work like this. Data, Worf and the other bridge crew, sometimes with input from Geordi in engineering, call out sensor readings and ship functionality metrics. Captain Picard stares toward the viewscreen/camera and gives orders, sometimes intermediated by Commander Riker. Worf or Data will tap once or twice on their consoles and then quickly report the results—i.e. "our phasers have no effect" or "the warp containment field is stabilizing," that sort of thing. It all moves very quickly, and even though the audience doesn't quite know the dangers of tachyon radiation or how tricky it is to compensate for subspace interference, we feel a palpable urgency. It's probably one of the most recognizable scenes-types in television.
Now, extradiegetically, I think there are very good reasons to structure the action this way. It keeps the show moving, keeps the focus on the choices, rather than the tech. And of course, diegetically, their computers would be faster than ours, responding nearly instantaneously. The crew are also highly trained military personnel, whose focus, reaction speed, and knowledge of the ship's systems are kept sharp by regular drills. The occasional scenes we get of tertiary characters struggling with the controls only drives home how elite the Enterprise senior staff are.
Just kidding, we love ya, Wil.
Nonetheless, it is one thing to shout out the strength of the ship's shields. No doubt Worf has an indicator at tactical that's as easy to read as your laptop's battery level. That's bound to be routine. But it's quite another for a crewmember to complete a very specific and unusual request in what seems like one or two taps on a console. There are countless cases of the deflector dish or tractor beam being "reconfigured" to emit this or that kind of force or radiation. Power is constantly being rerouted from one system to another. There's a great deal of improvisational engineering by all characters.
Just to pick examples in my most recent days of binging: in "Descent, Part 2," for instance, Beverly Crusher, as acting captain, tells the ensign at ops to launch a probe with the ship's recent logs on it, as a warning to Starfleet, thus freeing the Enterprise to return through a transwarp conduit to take on The Borg. Or in the DS9 episode "Equilibrium"—yes, we've started on the next series now that TNG is off Netflix—while investigating a mysterious figure from Jadzia's past, Sisko instructs Bashir to "check the enrollment records of all the Trill music academies during Belar's lifetime." In both cases, the order is complete in barely a second.
Even for Julian Bashir—a doctor and secretly a mutant genius—there is no way for a human to perform such a narrow and out-of-left-field search without entering a few parameters, perhaps navigating via menus to the correct database. From a UX perspective, we're talking several clicks at least!
There is a tension in design between…
Interface elements that allow you to perform a handful of very specific operations quickly (if you know where the switch is), and…
Those that let you do almost anything, but slower.
For instance, this blog has big colorful buttons that make it easy to get email updates about new posts or to donate to a tip jar. If you want to find a specific post, however, you have to type something into the search box or perhaps scroll through the list of TV/movie properties on the right. While the 24th Century no doubt has somewhat better design than WordPress, they are still bound by this tension.
Of course it would be boring to wait while Bashir made the clicks required to bring up the Trill equivalent of census records or LexisNexis. With movie magic they simply edit out those seconds. But I think it's interesting to indulge in a little backworlding and imagine that Starfleet really does have the technology to make complex general computing a breeze. How might they do it?
Enter the Ship's AI
One possible answer is that the ship's Computer—a ubiquitous and omnipresent AI—is probably doing most of the heavy lifting. Much like how Iron Man is really Jarvis with a little strategic input from Tony, I suspect that the Computer listens to the captain's orders and puts the appropriate commands on the relevant crewman's console the instant the words are out of Picard's mouth. (With predictive algorithms, maybe even just before.) The crewman then merely has to confirm that the computer correctly interpreted the orders and press execute. Similarly, the Computer must be constantly analyzing sensor data and internal metrics and curating the most important information for the crew to call out. This would be in line with the Active Academy model proposed in relation to Starship Troopers.
Centaurs, Minotaurs, and anticipatory computing
I've heard this kind of human-machine relationship called "Centaur Computing." In chess, for instance, some tournaments have found that human-computer teams outperform either humans or computers working on their own. This is not necessarily intuitive, as one would think that computers, as the undisputed better chess players, would be hindered by having an imperfect human in the mix. But in fact, when humans can offer strategic guidance, choosing between potential lines that the computer games out, they often outmaneuver pure-AIs.
I often contrast Centaur Computing with something I call "Minotaur Computing." In the Centaur version—head of a man on the body of a beast—the human makes the top-level decision and the computer executes. In Minotaur Computing—head of a beast with the body of a man—the computer calls the shots and leaves it up to human partners to execute. An example of this would be the machine gods in Person of Interest, which have no Skynet Terminator armies but instead recruit and hire human operatives to carry out their cryptic plans.
In some ways this kind of anticipatory computing is simply a hyper-advanced version of AI features we already have today, such as when Gmail offers to complete my sentence when I begin to type "thank you for your time and consideration" at the end of a cover letter.
Hi, it looks like you're trying to defeat the Borg…
In this formulation, the true spiritual ancestor of the Starfleet Computer is Clippy, the notorious Microsoft Word anthropomorphic paperclip helper, which would pop up and make suggestions like "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?" Clippy was much maligned in popular culture for being annoying, distracting, and the face of what was in many ways a clunky, imperfect software product. But the idea of making sense of the user's intentions and offering relevant options isn't always a bad one. The Computer in Star Trek performs this task so smoothly, efficiently, and in-the-background, that Starfleet crews are able to work in fast-paced harmony, acting on both instinct and expertise, and staying the heroes of their stories.
One to beam into the Sun, Captain.
Admittedly, this deftness is a bit at odds with the somewhat obtuse behavior the Computer often displays when asked a question directly, such as demanding you specify a temperature when you request a glass of water. Given how often the Computer suffers strange malfunctions that complicate life on the Enterprise for days a time, one wonders if the crew feel as though they are constantly negotiating with a kind of capricious spirit—usually benign but occasionally temperamental and even dangerously creative in its interpretations of one's wishes, like a djinn. Perhaps they rarely complain about or even mention the Computer's role in Clippy-ing orders onto their consoles because they know better than to insult the digital fairies that run the turbolifts and replicate their food.
All of which brings a kind of mystical cast to those rapid, chain-of-command-tightened exchanges amongst the bridge crew when shit hits the fan. When Picard gives his crew an order, he's really talking to the Computer. When Riker offers a sub-order, he's making a judgment call that the Computer might need a little more guidance. The crew are there to act as QA—a general-intelligence safeguard—confirming with human eyes and brain that the Computer is interpreting Picard correctly. The one or two beeps we often hear as they execute a complex command are them merely dismissing incorrect or confused operation-lines. They report back that the probe is ready or the phasers are locked, as the captain wished, and Picard double confirms with his iconic "make it so." It's a multilayered checking and rechecking of intentions and plans, much like the military today uses to prevent miscommunications, but in this case with the added bonus of keeping the reins on a powerful but not always cooperative genie.
There's a good argument to be made that this is the relationship we want to have with technology. Smooth and effective, but with plenty of oversight, and without the kind of invasive elements that right now make tech the center of so many conversations. We want AI that gives us computational superpowers, but still keeps us the heroes of our stories.
Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction author, researcher, and theorist. His first book, Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures, is fresh off the press. Check it out here. And follow his work via his newsletter, solarshades.club.
Posted in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994). Tagged apologetics, artificial intelligence, backworlding
4 Apr 2022 by Christopher Noessel
The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused recognition. Awards are given for Best Believable, Best Narrative, Audience Choice, and Best Interfaces (overall.) This blog's readership is also polled for Audience Favorite interfaces, and this year, favorite robot. Following are the results.
Best Believable
These movies' interfaces adhere to solid HCI principles and believable interactions. They engage us in the story world by being convincing. The nominees for Best Believable are Swan Song, Stowaway, and Needle in a Timestack.
The winner of the Best Believable award for 2022 is Swan Song.
Facing a terminal illness, Cameron Turner must make a terrible choice: have his wife and children suffer the grief of losing him, or sign up to be secretly swapped with a healthy clone of himself, and watch from afar as his replacement takes over his life with his unaware loved ones.
The film is full of serene augmented reality and quiet technology. It's an Apple TV production, and very clearly inspired by Apple's sensibilities: Slim panes of paper-white slabs that house clean-lined productivity tools, fit-to-purpose assistant wearables, and charming AI characters. Like the iPad's appearance in The Incredibles, Swan Song's technologies feel like a well-designed smoke-and-mirrors prototype of an AR world maybe a few years from launch.
Perhaps even more remarkably, the cloning technology that is central to the plot's film has none of the giant helmets-with-wires that seem to be the go-to trope for such things. That's handled almost entirely as a service with jacketed frontstage actors and tiny brain-reading dots that go on Cameron's temples. A minimalist touch in a minimalist world that hides the horrible choices that technology asks of its citizens.
Audience Choice, too!
All of the movies nominated for other awards were presented for an Audience Choice award. Across social media, the readership was invited to vote for their favorite, and the results tallied. The winner of the Audience Choice award for 2022 is Swan Song. Congratulations for being the first film to win two Fritzes in the same year! To celebrate, here's another screen cap from the film, showing the AR game Cameron plays with his son. Notably the team made the choice to avoid the obvious hot-signaling that almost always accompanies volumetric projections in screen sci-fi.
Best Narrative
These movies' interfaces blow us away with wonderful visuals and the richness of their future vision. They engross us in the story world by being spectacular. The nominees for Best Narrative are The Mitchells vs The Machines, Reminiscence, and The Matrix: Resurrections.
The winner of the Best Narrative award for 2022 is The Mitchells vs The Machines.
The Mitchells vs The Machines
Katie Mitchell is getting ready to go to college for filmmaking when the world is turned upside down by a robot uprising, which is controlled by an artificial intelligence that has just been made obsolete. Katie and her odd family have to keep themselves safe from capture by the robots and ultimately save all of humanity—all while learning to love each other.
The charming thing about the triangle-heavy and candy-colored interfaces in the film are that they are almost wholly there for the robots doing their humanity-destroying job. Diegetically, they're not meant for humans, but extradiegetically, they're there to help tell the audience what's happening. That's a delicate balance to manage, and to do it while managing hilarity, lambasting Silicon Valley's cults of personality, and providing spectacle; is what earns this film its Fritz.
Best Robot: Bubs!
There was a preponderance of interesting robots in sci-fi last year. So 2022 has a new category of Audience Choice, and that's for Best Robot. The readership was invited to vote for their favorite from…
The unnamed bartender from Cosmic Sin
Jeff from Finch
Eric and Deborahbot 5000 from The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Bubs from Space Sweepers
Steve from the unsettling Settlers
The audience vote is clear: The wisecracking Bubs from Space Sweepers wins! Bubs' emotions might have been hard to read with the hard plastic shell of a face. But pink blush lights and a display—near where the mouth would be—reinforce the tone of speech with characters like "??" and "!!" and even cartoon mouth expressions. Additionally, near the end of the movie Bubs has enough money to get a body upgrade, and selects a female-presenting humanoid body and voice, making a delightful addition to the Gendered AI finding than when AI selects a gender, it picks female. Congrats, Bubs!
Best Interfaces (best overall)
The movies nominated for Best Interfaces manage the extraordinary challenge of being believable and helping to paint a picture of the world of the story. They advance the state of the art in telling stories with speculative technology. The nominees for Best Narrative are Oxygen, Space Sweepers, and Voyagers.
The winner of the Best Interfaces award for 2022 is Oxygen.
A woman awakes in an airtight cryogenic chamber with no knowledge of who or where she is. In this claustrophobic space, she must work with MILO, an artificial intelligence, to manage the crisis of her dwindling oxygen supply and figure out what's going on before it's too late.
Nearly all of the film happens in this coffin-like space between the actress and MILO. The interface shows modes for media searches, schematic searches, general searches, media playback, communication, and health monitoring as the woman tries to work the problem and save her own life. It shows a main screen directly above her, a ring of smaller interfaces placed in a corona around her head, and it also has volumetric display capabilities. The interfaces are lovely with tightly controlled palettes, an old sci-fi standby typeface Eurostyle (or is it some derivative?), and excellent signals for managing attention and conveying urgency.
The interface is critical to the narration, its tension, and the ultimate dark reveal and resolution of the story—a remarkable feat for a sci-fi interface.
I would love to extend my direct congratulations to all the studios who produced this work, but Hollywood is complicated and makes it difficult to identify exactly whom to credit for what. So let me extend my congratulations generally to the nominees and winners for an extraordinary body of work. If you are one of these studios, or can introduce me, please let me know; I'd love to do some interviews for the blog. Here's looking to the next year of sci-fi cinema.
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Atticus As A Parent : Atticus
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Home Culture Is World of Warcraft a Political Liability? Maine Republicans Think So.
Colleen's WoW character (according to the attack site)
Is World of Warcraft a Political Liability? Maine Republicans Think So.
Colleen's WoW character (according to the attack site)
You might want to sit down for this one. It seems that the Maine GOP is attacking a Democratic State Senate Candidate over her World of Warcraft character and playing habit. Their tagline? "Maine needs a State Senator that lives in the real world, not in Colleen's fantasy world."
Oh, yes. This is a wild one.
They've devoted an entire website to attacking her WoW hobby and her postings about it:
Colleen Lachowicz, AKA Santiaga, is a gamer in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft(WoW), which takes place in the make-believe land Azeroth. Today, Colleen/Santiaga is an orc assassination rogue playing at level 85–the highest level one can attain. She and the members of her "Wreck List Guild"—Colleen/Santiaga's WoW online alliance—post comments to each other on liberal online forums including the Daily Kos, where they discuss politics, military policies, and WoW battle tactics.
Studies have found the average WoW gamer is 28, and spends 22.7 hours a week playing in Azeroth.
God help the first political candidate that is found to have played MafiaWars on Facebook.
It seems that Daily Kos (a very influential Progressive/Democratic blog) has a bunch of readers that play Warcraft, fashioned a guild inside the game around the Kos community and post discussions about WoW and politics in WoW-specific threads on the Kos site. Lachowicz is a member of that guild.
From that context, the anti-Lachowicz/WoW site is pulling a few quotes about how she likes poisoning and stabbing. It isn't necessarily obvious she's talking about that in terms of game play.
On the other hand, the quote
Now if you'll excuse me, I may have to go and hunt down Grover Norquist and drown HIM in my bath tub.
is most likely sarcastic hyperbole, but is a "dairy" posting on Daily Kos, not part of a WoW discussion. The attack site isn't making contextual distinctions between any of the quotes.
I've never heard of a candidate being derided for their choice of game before. A lot of that attack site is the equivalent of somebody saying they like to use artillery when playing Risk or put hotels on properties in Monopoly.
I have heard of favored authors being political talking points for the opposition. Paul Ryan's love of Ayn Rand has come up as a political topic, but there's more of philosophical component to that. I'm still waiting for a candidate to come out as a big fan of 50 Shades of Grey.
On Lachowicz's campaign site, the Issues page addresses Jobs, Economic Fairness, Renewable Energy and so forth. It is disappointingly lacking in her stands on character class, alignment, or battle tactics. It seems that these last three things are now a political debate topic in Maine.
I'm so glad to see Maine taking up important political issues.
We'll see how soon somebody points out the celebrity Republican Chuck Norris was featured on Warcraft TV Ads…
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Todd Allen wears a lot of hats. At various times he's been (alphabetically), a bouncer, college professor, humor columnist, Internet producer and an NBA/WNBA Beat Writer, among other things. He's the author of Economics of Digital Comics. You should probably read it.
Thad 10/04/2012 6:29 pm At 6:29 pm
The "drown in the bathtub" quote is a reference to a famous Norquist line about what he'd like to do to government.
Well, come on, this was bound to happen sooner or later. One side has always attacked the other side's candidate over the most foolish things. This isn't really any more foolish and is only interesting because it's new.
Which brings to mind this MAD classic:
http://gis.washington.edu/~phurvitz/outgoing/bustagut/Non-SlanderousPoliticalSmearSpeech.htm
"He attempted to interest a 13-year-old girl in philately"
"He has advocated social intercourse in mixed company — and has taken part in such gatherings himself"
Hmmm… no donation link on her website.
ArtRat 10/05/2012 12:13 am At 12:13 am
This is a comic book website. The WoWC connection is basically nonexistent and the politics connection IS nonexistent. I'm a nonpartisan, by the way. This stuff seems tacky and desperate on your part, and I'd be saying the same thing if you posted a story about a Democrat attacking a Republican for video game playing as well.
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Kohler & Campbell Piano History
Founded in 1896 as a partnership between Charles Kohler and J. C. Campbell, in less than 20 years Kohler and Campbell became one of the world's leading manufacturers of upright and grand pianos, player pianos and automatic reproducing actions.
Campbell was a machinist who invented several wood and iron making machines and later took up piano making. John Campbell has been credited with pioneering many manufacturing techniques that instantly created more value for the dollar in Kohler & Campbell pianos. This was and is the cornerstone of Kohler & Campbell pianos…the best value for the dollar.
At the age of 20, Charles Kohler embarked on a piano-making career. Considered a genius as a factory organizer and businessman, he was the perfect complement to Campbell.
Together they built one of America's largest piano companies. As a testament to the quality, it is said that some of their largest customers were piano manufacturers of note that carried Kohler & Campbell pianos in their retail establishments.
First factory was in a small loft building on 14th Street in N.Y.C. After the company was established only a few years the business expanded to such a degree that it moved to much larger quarters, occupying an entire building built for it at 50th Street and Eleventh Avenue, and continuing to expand into adjoining and nearby buildings until it occupied over one million feet of floor space. After Mr. Campbell's unexpected death in 1908, Charles Kohler became sole owner. Under his direction, Kohler & Campbell popularized the player piano in America, making available to the public for the first time the music of the world's leading artists through Welte-Mignon reproducing action.
Position of Kohler & Campbell in the piano industry is well illustrated by the distinguished piano companies either founded or acquired by it during its 84 years of operation. Among those companies are Hazelton Brothers, Francis Bacon Piano Company, Behning Piano Company, Milton Piano Company, Behr Brothers, Brambach Piano Company, Davenport and Treacy Company, Kroeger Piano Company, Waldorf Piano Company and Bjur Brothers. Nearly every major piano manufacturer purchased player actions from the Auto Pneumatic Action Company and The Standard Pneumatic Action Company, manufacturing subsidiaries of Kohler & Campbell during the days of the player piano. Their combined production exceeded 50,000 player actions per year.
Through acquisition of Francis Bacon Piano Company, Kohler & Campbell traces its heritage back to 1789, date of founding of the first piano company in America by John Jacob Astor. However, progressive leadership and modern production techniques have always been outstanding attributes of the company. The late Julius A. White originally joined the company in 1921 and thereafter became successively president and chairman. Under his direction, a number of separate operations stemming from various acquisitions were consolidated under one roof. Following World War II, the company moved its operations from the 50th Street location to the Bronx in a larger, more modern building. In 1954 the entire manufacturing facility was moved to Granite Falls, North Carolina. The reasons for this were to make possible a single-story straight-line production method, to locate in a major furniture manufacturing area among resident skilled woodcraftsmen and to be closer to sources of supply of raw materials.
In 1956, presidency of the company passed on to a third generation when Charles Kohler White, grandson of the founder, assumed the position. After his untimely death in 1957, Charles L. Clayton was elected president. In 1978 Clayton also became chairman. Other officers are Ronald J. Achor, executive vice-president; Gaylord M. Hufstader, vice-president/marketing; Dr. Rita W. Matthews, secretary.
The Kohler & Campbell name was first sold in 1985 to California firm, Sherman Clay, and eventually sold to the Samick Music Corp., who continue to manufacture these pianos today in South Korea and Indonesia.
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Piano Executive Plunges 13 Floors To His Death
Chicago (AP) Wednesday, September 25, 1957 — A North Carolina piano manufacturer plunged to his death yesterday from a 13th floor window of the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. He was Charles Kohler White, 32 years old, of Hildebran, N.C. He was president of Kohler-Campbell Inc., piano manufacturers of Granite Falls, N.C, and was at Chicago for an industry convention. He registered at the hotel on September 22, 1957. Identification of the nude body that landed on an inside court roof at the fourth-floor level was made from a wedding ring bearing White's initials and those of his wife. Police reached the father, Julius, at Blowing Rock, N.C, and said he is satisfied from the description given by the police that the victim is his son. The father said Charles was in good health and spirits when he left home. The Charles Whites have two children. The death was reported by Fred Schafer, a scout for the Chicago White Sox, who heard a thud outside his fifth-floor room. He looked out the window and saw White's body. The window of White's room No. 135 was wide open.
(Wednesday, September 25, 1957 The Indianapolis Star – Page 12)
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Emma Watson is proud to be a 'feminazi'
Emma Watson attends the 'Colonia Dignidad - Es gibt kein zurueck' Berlin Premiere on February 05, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
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By Heather Dockray 2016-03-08 13:14:53 UTC
Not all insults are created equal.
In an interview with Esquire, actress Emma Watson explores the criticism she's received since becoming an activist. As an outspoken feminist and ambassador to the UN women's initiative HeForShe, Watson says she's been labeled many things — "difficult, "a diva," a "feminazi." And frankly, she couldn't care less.
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"We are not supposed to talk about money, because people will think you're 'difficult' or a 'diva.' But there's a willingness now to be like, 'Fine. Call me a 'diva', call me a 'feminazi', call me 'difficult', call me a 'First World feminist', call me whatever you want, it's not going to stop me from trying to do the right thing and make sure that the right thing happens.' Because it doesn't just affect me," Watson told Esquire.
The actress plans to take a year off from the screen to study gender inequity, focusing on the pay gap. Her organization, HeForShe, hopes to explore wage inequality on an international level. And while Watson recognizes her privileges as a wealthy woman, she says she's still able to see gender discrimination in her everyday life:
"I've had my arse slapped as I've left a room. I've felt scared walking home. I've had people following me. I don't talk about these experiences much, because coming from me they'll sound like a huge deal and I don't want this to be about me, but most women I know have experienced it and worse," Watson said.
Throughout her career, Watson has wanted men to become active in the feminist movement. The HeForShe campaign, the actress hopes, will attract a male audience. The best way for men to become involved isn't just to read literature, but actually talk to the women in their lives:
"The only thing that is going to make a difference is if men go away and speak to the women in their lives about what they are experiencing," Watson said.
What are you doing tomorrow for #InternationalWomensDay ?
— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) March 7, 2016
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